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Chemical leasing – A performance-based business model towards a circular economy

Among a lot of the alternatives that we need to choose in order to move towards a circular, regenerative economy, the most impactful differences come from the redesign of upstream processes. Many of these involve a product or material redesign or larger industrial transformation.

There are some initiatives, which can create quick and easy wins in moving towards a circular economy. Initiatives such as product-service systems let you go a great length in achieving the fundamentals of a circular economy, just with the business model and process innovations.

Circular Economy in Industrial Parks: Technologies for Competitiveness

The circular economy is now at the forefront of the competitiveness agenda for various industrial sectors, industrial parks, and firms. This report intends to provide practical recommendations on how industrial parks can promote the circularity of resources and strengthen competitiveness through innovative technologies and business models, and what governments can do to support such initiatives.

Rooftop farms are teaching city dwellers how to grow food at home

From balcony beehives to car park market gardens, city dwellers are finding innovative ways to embrace urban agriculture while promoting social and ecological wellbeing in the process.

“There are so many benefits associated with urban farming, environmental and societal,” says Emma Bowen, chair and co-founder of Sydney’s Pocket City Farms.

How Singapore fixed its big trash problem | CNBC Reports

More than 2 billion tonnes of global waste is generated yearly. By 2050, it’s expected to increase to 3.4 billion tonnes. CNBC’s Nessa Anwar traces the journey of a piece of discarded trash in Singapore to the nation’s only landfill, exploring solutions and the future of the world’s garbage dilemma.

Sustainability - Full Documentary

Join the Si community: https://www.systemsinnovation.network/​ This video explores the rise of the concept of sustainability as it has gone from the fringes to the mainstream within just a few short decades, driven by an environmental crisis on a global scale. In this short documentary film, we explore this new environmental context of the Anthropocene and the key structural transformations in our economy required to achieve sustainability in the age of globalization.
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